I’ve been dithering about what to put in this slot. In a linkier and shorter place I would simply put the two delightful words I found while cheating at the FT crossword yesterday — elaphure and phlegmagogue. An elaphure is actually a Père David’s Deer, so now we have an animal with two beautiful names, though I prefer elaphure. A phlegmagogue is not — as you might think — a teacher of snot, but a medicine which expels it. The word has been little used since the 17th century, according to the OED, which has no quotes after 1737, but one lovely cite:
1671 Salmon Syn. Med. iii. li. 570 Electuary of Jallap..is a good Phlegmagogue.
UPDATE: Google Print, however, has four results, for phlegmagogue and twenty pages on elaphure. That’s pretty impressive, though none will give you a definition.
An elaphure is actually a [what?] David’s Deer? Likewise, A phlegmagogue is not [what?] as I might think?
Maybe it’s just Safari, but even viewing the source doesn’t give me much of a clue.
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But Google does. OK, Pere David, but the page source gives PÃ& uml;re
Still drawing a blank on #2.
Are you looking at the individual entry? It shows up fine on the front page.
I think this is fixed now. Cut and paste to blame.
Yes, I was, and yes, it’s fixed. Thanks.
BTW, I almost always come to an individual entry, since I read via rss. On that subject, the link from entry pages to the front page is pretty obscure. I’d expect the Helmintholog banner to be a live link as well, but no.
I stopped that becasue it looked bad in an earlier design. It’s reinstated now and looks fine in Opera 8.5. Complaints to the usual address.
It looks fine in Safari (except that the image background is noticeably darker than the rest of the page background).
But Firefox (Mac) is putting a border around it, with a hover of a thick underline.
FWIW, http://coastsider.com does something similar but without the problem. Not sure what the entire difference is, though it does have border=0 in the img.